We met at the Pavilion for a Thursday meeting. Javier introduced the topic “What Is Relationship?” drawing on Krishnamurti’s teachings. He suggested that life is relationship and that our relationships shape both who we are and the world we create. Our psychological identity is formed through past experiences, conditioning, and images of ourselves and others, […]
We gathered for an open dialogue on the lawn. After introductions, the dialogue opened with a question about Krishnamurti’s understanding of psychological change. Does transformation require time and gradual progress, or can insight arise immediately, regardless of our stage of development? The distinction between states and stages of consciousness raised questions about the relationship between […]
We met at the Pavilion, where Javier introduced the dialogue theme, “What does it mean to know oneself?” He invited us to examine the nature of seeking. Before searching for truth, we must understand who is seeking and why. Are we looking for something genuinely unknown, or pursuing images of what we think we should […]
We gathered for a dialogue with Javier Gómez Rodríguez, exploring the nature of dialogue, psychological conditioning, and the possibility of fundamental change in ourselves and society. Javier began by discussing David Bohm’s proposal for dialogue in the context of J. Krishnamurti’s teachings. Krishnamurti saw himself not as an authority but as a mirror reflecting what […]
We met at the Pavilion for a dialogue with Javier Gómez Rodríguez, beginning with the question, “What is our deepest interest in life?” Javier invited everyone to share what felt most central to them, whether a concern, an intention, or a question that had stayed with them over the years. The conversation touched on many […]
We met at the Centre on another beautiful day for our first Sunday dialogue with Javier Rodriguez, who will be facilitating the gatherings in October and November. We began with an overview of Javier’s Overview of the Dialogue, a booklet he wrote based on Krishnamurti’s and David Bohm’s ideas about dialogue, as well as his […]
We met at the Pavilion, where Lee opened the dialogue with a reading from The Book of Life from the April 1st entry: “The entity who tries to fill or run away from emptiness, incompleteness, loneliness, is not different from that which he is avoiding; he is it. He cannot run away from himself; all […]
We met at the Centre on the lawn, sitting in the sun on one of the last warm days of the year. Our facilitator, Victoria resident Lee Tuley, took the place of James Tousignant, who was unable to attend. She began with a few moments of silence, inviting everyone to arrive fully in the space. The […]
We met in the Pavilion for our final meeting with James, titled The Beginning of Meditation. James began with a reading from The Book of Life, centred on Krishnamurti’s statement: “The flowering of meditation is goodness, and the generosity of the heart is the beginning of meditation.” The group explored what Krishnamurti might mean by […]
We met at the Swanwick Centre with a question from Krishnamurti about learning: What do we mean by learning? Is there learning when we merely accumulate knowledge? James approached the question by introducing recent developments in AI. If learning is merely gathering information and adding it to memory, how is that different from a machine? […]